The Ludlow Massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War. Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and private guards employed by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attacked a tent colony of roughly 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914.

Feb 28, 2025 · Ludlow Massacre, attack on striking coal miners and their families by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards at Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914, resulting in the deaths of 25 people, including 11 children. About 10,000 miners under the direction of the United Mine

The Ludlow Massacre was the apex of the Colorado Coalfield War where coal miners were fighting back against John D. Rockefeller and his company, the Colorado Fuel and Iron …

The Ludlow Massacre began on the morning of April 20, 1914, when a battle broke out between the Colorado National Guard and striking coal miners at their tent colony outside of Ludlow in Las Animas County.

Nov 16, 2009 · On this day in 1914, two companies of guardsmen attacked the largest tent colony of strikers near the town of Ludlow, home to about 1,000 men, women, and children. The attack began in the morning...

One of history's most dramatic confrontations between capital and labor — the so-called Ludlow Massacre — took place at the mines of the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I)....

Oct 12, 2022 · On April 20, 1914, machine gun fire rang out over a makeshift tent city near Ludlow, Colorado, marking the beginning of a day-and-night conflict known as the Ludlow Massacre. It saw at least 25 men, women, and children killed by National Guardsmen on the behest of the Colorado governor and a Rockefeller family company.

On April 20, 1914, there was a violent massacre in Ludlow, CO, north of Trinidad. The Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards shot striking miners and burning their tents to the ground. Women and children were killed. Known as the Ludlow Massacre, 25 people lost their lives, 11 of which were children.

Apr 11, 2014 · Determined to stand their ground, 1,200 miners and their families pitched tents at Ludlow on the plains east of the Spanish Peaks — the Wahatoyas, as the Ute called them — and those ancient ...

One of 1,200 striking miner families in the Ludlow Tent Colony. The gunmen hired by the Rockefeller interests — the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency — using Gatling guns and rifles, raided the tent colonies. The death list of miners grew, but they hung on, drove back an armored train in a gun battle, fought to keep out strikebreakers.